At 07:42 PM 4/11/06 -0400, Darcy James Argue wrote: >Here's the one place where I disagree with you, Dennis. The audience >for Albinoni (by and large) will never be interested in creative new >music. They are the "Pottery Barn" crowd, when they're not listening >to Albinoni, they're listening to well-crafted but bland, >unprovocative, unchallenging stuff like Norah Jones, Diana Krall, >Josh Groban, Beth Orton, etc. (You know, the CDs they sell in >Starbucks.) These people are set in their musical ways are are >utterly unreachable.
You have a good point there. We are heavily infested with pottery and barns here in Vermont. And we bequeathed you all with Windham Hill Records. >On the other hand, there are plenty of 20-30 year olds who go to >contemporary art galleries, read provocative fiction, watch >independent films, know the difference between cask ale and keg beer, >and think NPR is a bit stuffy overall, but nonetheless subscribe to >NPR's indie rock podcast I'm more than old enough to be out of touch with the 20-30 year olds you mention, so last year Noizepunk & Krooner (Gene Pritsker and Charles Coleman) replaced our radio show with one that reaches out more effectively to that age group (http://kalvos.org/nptour1.html). Aside from being tired after 537 shows, David and I also thought we could no longer speak as promoters of new nonpop, at 58 and 57 years old respectively. Dennis _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
